Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

[kerfuffle]

VA824 SYD-MEL today

The usual chicken sausage with scrambled egg, potato and beans, or pancakes with Mascarpone cream and strawberries. Only difference from last time I had it was the Lindt chocolate bunny (which the kids behind me in Row 3 also got). Very light loading with 3/8 seats

 

[twinaisle]

VA824 SYD-MEL today

The usual chicken sausage with scrambled egg, potato and beans, or pancakes with Mascarpone cream and strawberries. Only difference from last time I had it was the Lindt chocolate bunny (which the kids behind me in Row 3 also got). Very light loading with 3/8 seats

They like to add seasonal chocolates onto it due to easter/Xmas etc. non holiday is bare minimal.

 

[kerfuffle]

They like to add seasonal chocolates onto it due to easter/Xmas etc. non holiday is bare minimal.

Yeah I did see there were chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day last month in this thread

 

[PERLHR]

What is it with VA obsession with chicken sausages!! Yuck!

 

[Saab34]

Who supplies the catering for VA?

 

[henrus]

Who supplies the catering for VA?

Gate gourmet.

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They do both the economy sale and the business/crew meals.

 

[PERLHR]

Who supplies the catering for VA?

Gate Gourmet I think mostly with some Perth crowd doing inter WA flights I believe. Those chicken sausages () on VA biz flights is the same dross served up for breakfast at least at PER.

 

[Luke B]

VA336 BNE-MEL, some vego pasta dish with chicken, I thought it was just okay. Not really my fancy.

 

[anat0l]

What is it with VA obsession with chicken sausages!! Yuck!

There's a lot of sausages served both in lounges and on board these days are made from meats aside from pork.

 

[The-Aviator]

April 2026 | VA875 | MEL to SYD

An enjoyable and on-time flight to Sydney.

Melbourne lounge was pretty busy but given how large it is, we had no trouble finding a seat. There was plenty of food on offer including the excellent chocolate brownies - strangely there seemed to be a lot of flies hanging around the hot food though which wasn't great...



Boarding commenced on time and was pretty efficient - CM allowed most of the passengers to board before bringing around PDBs about twenty minutes after boarding had commenced. Nice generous pour of sparkling wine for me and my travelling companion.



Once in the air orders for dinner were taken, our orders in 2DF were taken first followed by 2AC, 1DF, 1AC. Options were stir fried beef in black bean sauce with seasoned rice and bok choy or vegetable ragout cottage pie with roast vegetables. I've had both options before (the next menu refresh musn't be too far off!) and went with the beef this time. Both options were good although the cottage pie is probably the better one of the two.





Service was exactly by the book which to be honest is what you'd want on a short flight like this, our CM was friendly, efficient and attentive.

 

[AIRwin]

strangely there seemed to be a lot of flies hanging around the hot food though which wasn't great

Were they flying Economy or Business?

 

[Ryan Bingham]

strangely there seemed to be a lot of flies hanging around the hot food though which wasn't great...

Same for us when passing through in Feb. I was serving myself when someone complained, to be met with a blank look and shrug.